CiteScore: 2.67ℹ
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Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.262ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2015: 1.262SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.100ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2015: 1.100SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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